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While The South's switch from Democrat to Republican was due to social issues like integration and abortion, how did views about the size of government, taxes and other policies change? Were Southerners already in favor of "small government" or did views change as they adopted a new party?

by /u/elephantofdoom in /r/AskHistorians

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